Housing tends to be seen as a human right, but here’s something to make you pause this winter: very few countries give homeless people any entitlement to emergency shelter. Scotland goes further and gives…

Two issues papers give a recipe to reforming federalism, if we care to follow it.
Flickr/Nick WheelerDesember 12, 2014

Australia’s Reform of the Federation taskforce has released two major issues papers on the scrambled roles and responsibilities of governments in the areas of housing and homelessness, and health. The…

Housing First is a program that offers housing to homeless drug users – regardless of whether or not they’re drug free – with a goal of social recovery.
Bryan Guilas/FlickrDesember 5, 2014

Over the past decade, drug use in the US has risen dramatically, with heroin use reaching epidemic proportions. The country’s policy for combating abuse has involved incarceration, abstinence-only treatment…

The 2014 HWC Chilean men’s team loft the trophy after defeating Bosnia and Herzegovina in the final.
Homeless World CupOktober 31, 2014

Chile won both the men’s and women’s Homeless World Cups (HWC) last Sunday, with the men defeating Bosnia and Herzegovina by more than five goals and the women defeating Mexico by a solitary goal in a…

The Namibian team was tested for Ebola, despite the country being free of the disease.
Fiona CrawfordOktober 23, 2014

Convenience stores in Santiago, Chile, still stock Coca-Cola bottles adorned with 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil branding. It’s a small reminder of the ubiquity and overhang of the world’s largest football…

For many people, the dilemma in giving money to beggars is whether it will be spent in a way that is helpful or harmful.
AAP/Dean LewinsOktober 7, 2014

Even before reports of police seizing the takings of Melbourne’s beggars as proceeds of crime, their plight has been a disturbing one in this, the world’s “most liveable city” - and in other major Australian…